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Emscher Landscape Park Regionalverband Ruhr Frank Bothmann Titel 2 Reshaping an urban Landscape creates regional identity
Emscher Landscape Park
Regionalverband Ruhr
Frank Bothmann
Titel 2
Reshaping an urban
Landscape creates
regional identity
• What is the ELP? – The Central Park of Metropolis Ruhr
• Steel works meets nightingale – Life in ELP
• Where is ELP? – Dimensions and park elements
• Experience and strategy – the twofold park, part 1
• Tourism und leisure green – the twofold park, part 2
• Who plays the park? – stakeholders and actors
• Structural change and identity – the park grows and prospers
• Visions and perspectives of the park development
Content – Emscher Landscape Park (ELP)
What is Emscher Landscape Park?
Welcome in the Central Park of Metropolis Ruhr!
• No traditional park
• A regional network of parks, open space and paths
• An unconventional, polycentric park for 5,2 Mio inhabitants
• The green heart of Metropolis Ruhr
• Open space for leisure and experience
What is Emscher Landscape Park?
The central Park of Metropolis Ruhr!
Steelworks meets nightingale – Life in Emscher Landscape Park
USP of Emscher Landscape Park:
• Industrial heritage + nature
• Art + culture in public open space
• striking landscape change
Comprehensive claim of ELP:
• Work and live in the park
• Quality of life
• Contribute to economic potential Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Welterbe Zollverein
Where is the Emscher Landscape Park?
20 municipalities
2 counties
- between Dortmund/
Bönen and Duisburg/
Dinslaken
- core zone of the
Metropolis
- Landcape along the
river Emscher
Parkelements
Parks
Land-
marks
Industry
nature
Trails
The scheme shows only selected elements of the park!
Emscher Landschaftspark + Neues Emschertal
LP
Duisburg-
Nord
Nordstern-
park
Westpark
Bochum
LP
Bladen-
horst
Seepark
Lünen
Gehölz-
garten
Ripshorst
Tetra-
eder
Schu-
renbach-
halde
Rhein-
elbe
Hohe-
ward
Großes
Holz
LP
Duisburg-
Nord
Brache
Vondern
LP
Mechten-
berg
Emscher-
bruch
Kokerei
Hansa
NSG
Hallerey
Emscher Park Radweg / Emscher Park Wanderweg / Insel Tour
Berne-
park
Bottrop
Reem-
renreh
NSG
Dicken-
heide
Emscher Rhein-Herne-Kanal Deininghauser Bach Beerenbruch SesekeWater
Nordsternpark Gelsenkirchen, Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord
Where is the Emscher Landscape Park? – Parkelements
Parks
Where is the Emscher Landscape Park? – Location and Parkelements
Landmarks/ Dumps
Schurenbachdump Essen, Dump Rheinelbe Gelsenkirchen, Tetraeder Bottrop
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Zollverein-Park mit Rückriem-Skulptur und Gleispark Frintrop
Industry Nature
Where is the Emscher Landscape Park? – Location and Parkelements
Emscher, Rhein-Herne-Kanal, Beversee, Deininghauser Bach vor und nach dem Umbau
Water
Where is the Emscher Landscape Park? – Location and Parkelements
Where is the Emscher Landscapepark? – Park elements: Leisure trails
www.radrevier.ruhr
Where is the Emscher Landscapepark? – Park elements:
Leisure trails
Emscher Park bike path and bridge Ripshorst, Erzbahntrasse, Emscher Park hiking trail
• Largest regional park in Europe
with 85 km linear expansion
ca. 450 km² total area
• more than 200 realised and
ca. 250 planned project
• Parks, landscape parks, district parks
• 14 Landmarks/ slag heaps/
Panoramas of Industrial heritage
• 19 sites of Industrial Nature
• ca. 600 km leisure trails
thereof 230 km Emscherpark Bike Trail
Where is the Emscher Landscapepark: Facts and Figures
Nordsternpark Gelsenkirchen, Industrial countryside
Experience = built environment
• Leisure time and recreation
• built and tangible landscapes
• Parks, landmarks, leisure trails
• Industrial heritage + nature
• Art, culture, architecture, land art,
• Presentations/ events
(TraumNordstern-Konzerte etc.)zeit-
Festival, Extraschicht,
Experience and Strategy – the twofold Park, part 1
Dump Hoheward mit Observatorium Herten/ Recklinghausen, Gleispark Frintrop Essen
Strategy = Emscher Landschaftspark
• main project of IBA Emscher-Park 1989-
1999
• Open space protection and development,
qualifying the Regional Greenbelts
• Investment programme to support the
structural change; multiple 100 Mio. Euro
for project implementation in ELP(1989 –
2014) incl. EU-Funds
• Developing the Metropolis: considering
the open space as central axis, unique in
Europe
Experience and Strategy – the twofold Park, part 1
Experience and Strategy – the twofold Park, part 1
Strategy – Open space protection and development of Regional Greenbelts
Experience and Strategy – the twofold Park, part 1
Strategy – Open space protection and development of Regional Greenbelts
Tourism and local green – the twofold Park, part 2
Halde Hoheward Herten/ Recklinghausen, Halde Rheinelbe Gelsenkirchen
Leisure + Tourism
• Emscher Landscapepark is mainly a park
for the region itself – for leisure,
recreation, to raise Quality of Life
• Highlight projects are attractions beyond
the region and serve in combination as
touristic USP with European significance
• Examples: Landschaftspark Duisburg-
Nord, Landmarks: Tetraeder Bottrop
and Halde Hoheward
Tourism and local green – the twofold Park, part 2
Sommerfrische am Datteln-Hamm-Kanal, Seepark Lünen
Local greens
• local district parks form part of the ELP
strategy in combination with urban
development i. e. Gartenband RE-
Hochlarmark
• path and trail networks supporting every
day recreation in parks and greenbelts
• Open space protection which positively
affects the urban climate in big
conurbations
The Emscher Landscape Park contributes to a new image of the metropolitain
region .
The projects are at the same time symbols for real and tangible examples of the
structural change of the metropolitain region.
Structural change and Identity – the ELP grows and prospers
Means are:
•new interpretation of ordinary places and
inaccessible places of former industries to landmark
and public art-places
• new perception of post-industrial landscape
• perceive urban landscape as landscape
• new and unique aesthetics
• combination of art with industry-culture and
industry-nature
Structural change and Identity – the ELP grows and prospers
Structural change and Identity – the ELP grows and prospers
Titelseite Buch 1, Ruhr.2010 GmbH
Who plays the Park? – Stakeholders and actors
• 20 Municipalities /
7 intercommunal WG (IKAG)
• State Gouvernment NW
• Emschergenossenschaft (EG)
• Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR)
Who plays the Park? – Masterplan ELP 2010
Masterplan ELP 2010: Content and aims
of the park development are defined,
regional coordinated, political consensus
Content:
- extended area of the park
- focal points of development
- projects (realised, planned)
- visions
Emscher Landscapepark – Park management by RVR
Management of the Emscher
Landschaftspark
In cooperation with the state of
Northrhine-Westphalia and
RVR duties of the management
were defined:
• Coordination / Planning
• Public Relation
• Project implementation
• Maintanaince of
park infrastructure
• Financial management
The future: new perspectives, new funding
The future: new perspectives, new funding
Internationale Gartenbauausstellung IGA 2027
Concept 2012 Application 2016
Strategic approach
- to continue the regional open
space and landscape
development
- new funding streams
- contribute to international
marketing of the region
- Die Region zukunftsfähig
gestalten
- cooperative Process
- political consensus
The future: new perspectives, new funding
